Former England captain John Terry's father was overheard saying "when the police call, tell them I never said those things" days after allegedly headbutting and racially abusing an Asian man, a court has heard.

Ted Terry, 59, is accused of calling Amarjit Talafair a "fucking Paki" and attacking him following a dispute over a cigarette outside a City of London pub.

Stephen Niland, 36, and Tudor Musteata, 47, are also accused of hurling racist abuse at Talafair on 22 March last year.

The Old Bailey has heard that Terry later got into a confrontation with Bakeba Mansuila, a cleaner at Fenchurch Street station, and allegedly called him a "black cunt".

Giving evidence, railway station worker David Bridson told the jury of seven men and five women that he had witnessed the second fracas.

Bridson said he saw Terry take the bottle of rum that Mansuila had been drinking and make racist threats towards him.

The witness said: "The threat that I heard was that he (Terry) was going to a smash a bottle over his head and he called him a black cunt.

"I was in the middle of both of them and I actually held the bottle to stop him from doing anything.

"He said 'what are you doing', who was I and I explained I worked for the company and he said 'I will smash this bottle over your head'."

Bridson claimed that on 28 March – the day Terry was arrested and interviewed – he had seen the defendant at Fenchurch Street station.

He claimed to have overheard the defendant saying on his mobile phone: "When the police call, tell them I never said those things".

Earlier, alleged victim Talafair told the court that Terry had at first approached him using a fake eastern European accent to ask for a cigarette.

The complainant admitted that he had called Terry a "fat bald prick" but denied using the words "Russian cunt" and "I will cut you" during the stand-off.

During the attack, he said that Terry tried to headbutt him, but he was able to avoid injury by pulling back.

Talafair reported the incident to police the following day after researching Terry online, the court heard. He asked officers about taking his story to the newspapers, but was told that it would interfere with the investigation.

The Chelsea captain was cleared of racially abusing former Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in court, but later faced disciplinary action from the Football Association.

Power asked Talafair: "You are saying this now because you want to sell your story to the papers, aren't you?"

The alleged victim replied: "No – you can't abuse someone for the colour of their skin and have an argument just because I'm Asian and try and assault me."

Cleaner Mansuila, known as Bax, told the court that he had been drinking a bottle of rum when he witnessed a "heated exchange of words" between Terry and another man on one hand and a friend of Talafair's on the other.

Going over to see what was going on, the witness said that Terry's friend, a tall man, had turned around and said "What are you going to do with that bottle mate?"

The man had then grabbed hold of the bottle, causing him to freeze "because of the way he was looking at me and his size".

Mansuila said he grabbed the bottle back and the man started calling him a "black cunt".

When Terry and his friend left and went into Fenchurch Street station as things calmed down, Mansuila said he had heard the words: "I should stick a bottle up your mother's cunt."

No charges were brought over the incident involving Mansuila.

Terry, who lives in Grays, Essex, denies one count of racially-aggravated common assault and one count of racially-aggravated fear or provocation of violence.

Niland, from Romford, Essex, and Musteata, from Greenwich, south-east London, deny one count each of racially aggravated fear or provocation of violence.